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Tragedy Walks the Streets
Matthew S. Buckley
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Description for Tragedy Walks the Streets
Surveying this expanded field of inquiry, Buckley weaves together a coherent formal genealogy of the drama during this period and offers a new, more continuous generic history of modern drama in its first and most turbulent phase of development. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
Tragedy Walks the Streets challenges the conventional understanding that the evolution of European drama effectively came to a halt during France's Revolutionary era. In this interdisciplinary history on the emergence of modern drama in European culture, Matthew S. Buckley contends that the political theatricality of the Revolution tested and forced the evolution of dramatic forms, supplanting the theater itself as the primary stage of formal development. Drawing on a wide range of texts and images, he demonstrates how the social and political enlistment of dramatic theatricality inflected rising social and political tensions in pre-Revolutionary France, shaped French Revolutionary political culture, ... Read more
Tragedy Walks the Streets challenges the conventional understanding that the evolution of European drama effectively came to a halt during France's Revolutionary era. In this interdisciplinary history on the emergence of modern drama in European culture, Matthew S. Buckley contends that the political theatricality of the Revolution tested and forced the evolution of dramatic forms, supplanting the theater itself as the primary stage of formal development. Drawing on a wide range of texts and images, he demonstrates how the social and political enlistment of dramatic theatricality inflected rising social and political tensions in pre-Revolutionary France, shaped French Revolutionary political culture, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801884344
SKU
V9780801884344
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About Matthew S. Buckley
Matthew S. Buckley is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University.
Reviews for Tragedy Walks the Streets
The book is both interdisciplinary and highly readable. Choice 2007 Those working on British Romanticism are often monolingual and indeed monocultural and so it is refreshing to see a monograph engaging with France, Britain and Germany in its re-evaluation of the development of modern drama.
Katherine Astbury French History 2007 Compelling account of the birth of modern drama and ... Read more
Katherine Astbury French History 2007 Compelling account of the birth of modern drama and ... Read more